Welcome to the Year 9 Flexible Project Wikispace. This page includes all the information that you will need to progressively work through the Felxible Project and to produce your enquiry project of your own choice, and presented in any way you wish. Do you want to know more? Check out the overview below; clicking on it will take you to an animated and more detailed overivew of the Project:
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1. Possible Topic Choices
This is a chance for students to explore examples of topics, as well as some further resources that they may utilise for their respective Flexible Projects.
2. Developing a Topic
This allows students a chance to further explore what specific topic they may wish to choose as well as narrowing the focus of their enquiry to some specific questions. It is through their own choice of question and topic that the Y9FP will be driven.
3. Visual Brainstorm
With their topics chosen, students will record in detail what they already know about the topic, with a view to ascertaining what they need to knowand find out during their enquiry process.
4. Wordle
This activity will allow students to begin to find and deconstruct useful information on the internet as an effective starting point for future research, and to understand and define key terms that are vital for understanding their respective topic. Through comparing these visual represntations of research with their own visual brainstorms, students will be able to more effectively ascertain what they already know and need to find out.
5. The Final Plan
Students will pull together all of their work on the Initiating, Planning and Managing the Research phase into a final plan of action for the specicic Doing the Research phase through collating all of their information and ideas so far into a workable plan.
6. Summary of Research Planning- Oral Presentation
Students use task 5 above to present their ideas, plan and proprosed pathway to completing their reserach around their focus question. This is the first assessment task for the Y9FP.
Each of these sections contains useful resources that all should complete, and extra resources which some may choose to complete if that particular research tool suits the needs of their respective Y9FP.
7. Survey Skills
Watch the short video on some ideas on how not to answer some survey questions!
Students are able to explore the uses and functions of surveys, complete a small activity which allows them to look at the structure of surveys, and access resources to help plan their own survey if applicable.
8. Interviewing Techniques: phone, email, face to face
Students will look at the importance and application of these three different interviewing techniques. Interviews are fanstastic ways of gaining primary resources on your chosen topic. To do your topic justice, you should be contacting at least one primary source.
look at four ways to make research easier for your specific topic; hopefully some of them suit you and your specific topic! Click to the picture on the left to access the Prezi that explores them in more detail.
9. Research & Intepretation: In Your Own Words
A key skill of secondary research is the ability to be able to take someone else's research and use it for your topic. This task helps you with this skill.
10. Research & Reference Details
One of the final resrouces for 'doing the research', this document allows you to track your secondary research as you progress. You should aim to get as much information from as many different secondary sources as possible (as well as using one of the primary sources below in a few weeks).
11. Final Research: Primary Sources
Earlier on we looked at the importance of primary sources to give a topic validity. After conducting your secondary research, and now knowing what you specifically need to know, complete task 11 which will help you to decide whether an interview or a survey is right for you and your topic:
12. Report Structure
With all all the hard work of planning and research complete, the time has come to put together all of your findings to see to what extent your focus question about your chosen issue was answered. The activity below gives you some solid guidelines around which to structure your report.
13. Final ReportContinuing with the report structure above, this task is the official task sheet/rubric for the final report of the Y9FP. Be sure to check the Achievement Standards in the rubric carefully.
Welcome to the Year 9 Flexible Project Wikispace. This page includes all the information that you will need to progressively work through the Felxible Project and to produce your enquiry project of your own choice, and presented in any way you wish. Do you want to know more? Check out the overview below; clicking on it will take you to an animated and more detailed overivew of the Project:
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1. Possible Topic Choices
This is a chance for students to explore examples of topics, as well as some further resources that they may utilise for their respective Flexible Projects.
2. Developing a Topic
This allows students a chance to further explore what specific topic they may wish to choose as well as narrowing the focus of their enquiry to some specific questions. It is through their own choice of question and topic that the Y9FP will be driven.
3. Visual Brainstorm
With their topics chosen, students will record in detail what they already know about the topic, with a view to ascertaining what they need to know and find out during their enquiry process.
4. Wordle
This activity will allow students to begin to find and deconstruct useful information on the internet as an effective starting point for future research, and to understand and define key terms that are vital for understanding their respective topic. Through comparing these visual represntations of research with their own visual brainstorms, students will be able to more effectively ascertain what they already know and need to find out.
5. The Final Plan
Students will pull together all of their work on the Initiating, Planning and Managing the Research phase into a final plan of action for the specicic Doing the Research phase through collating all of their information and ideas so far into a workable plan.
6. Summary of Research Planning- Oral Presentation
Students use task 5 above to present their ideas, plan and proprosed pathway to completing their reserach around their focus question. This is the first assessment task for the Y9FP.
Each of these sections contains useful resources that all should complete, and extra resources which some may choose to complete if that particular research tool suits the needs of their respective Y9FP.
7. Survey Skills
Watch the short video on some ideas on how not to answer some survey questions!
Students are able to explore the uses and functions of surveys, complete a small activity which allows them to look at the structure of surveys, and access resources to help plan their own survey if applicable.
Students who choose that a survey is appropriate to their research topic can utilise the two extra resources below for planning a survey:
8. Interviewing Techniques: phone, email, face to face
Students will look at the importance and application of these three different interviewing techniques. Interviews are fanstastic ways of gaining primary resources on your chosen topic. To do your topic justice, you should be contacting at least one primary source.
The following video is a good introduction on some 'inappropriate' interview techniques:
Extra Resource- email etiquette:
http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm
Electronic/Digital Research Tools
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9. Research & Intepretation: In Your Own Words
A key skill of secondary research is the ability to be able to take someone else's research and use it for your topic. This task helps you with this skill.
10. Research & Reference Details
One of the final resrouces for 'doing the research', this document allows you to track your secondary research as you progress. You should aim to get as much information from as many different secondary sources as possible (as well as using one of the primary sources below in a few weeks).
11. Final Research: Primary Sources
Earlier on we looked at the importance of primary sources to give a topic validity. After conducting your secondary research, and now knowing what you specifically need to know, complete task 11 which will help you to decide whether an interview or a survey is right for you and your topic:
Once you've chosen your topic, use either the assistance provided to either construct your survey or your interview (you only need to do one).
12. Report Structure
With all all the hard work of planning and research complete, the time has come to put together all of your findings to see to what extent your focus question about your chosen issue was answered. The activity below gives you some solid guidelines around which to structure your report.